A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Labor is no disgrace.
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.